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Michael Powell


Born
in Bekesbourne, Kent, England
September 30, 1905

Died
February 19, 1990

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Biographies & Memoirs, Arts & Photography, Entertainment

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Rex Ingram, Fritz Lang, Luis Buñuel, Walt Disney, Georges Mèlies, Patr ...more


The son of Thomas William Powell & Mabel (nee Corbett). Michael Powell was always a self confessed movie addict. He was brought up partly in Canterbury ("The Garden of England") and partly in the South of France (where his parents ran an hotel). Educated at Kings School, Canterbury & Dulwich College he first worked at the National Provincial Bank from 1922 - 1925. In 1925 he joined Rex Ingram making Mare Nostrum (1926). He learnt his craft by working at various jobs in the (then) thriving English studios of Denham & Pinewood, working his way up to producer on a series of "quota quickies" (Short films made to fulfill quota/tariff agreements between Britain & America in between the wars).

Very rarely for the times, Powell had a true "world vie ...more

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A Life in Movies
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Edge of the World: The Maki...
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“...for all art is one, as Kipling has written, and your art chooses you, not you the art.”
― Michael Powell, Million Dollar Movie
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